Thursday, August 22, 2013

DATES, FACTS, REMINDERS

It’s been a good summer for you—no drivel from me—nothing to
delete, but feel free to delete this at will.

The good news is that we have a new President of the UC
system named Janet Napolitano.The bad
news is that you will have to remove your shoes before entering the gate at
Memorial Stadium.

There are several reminders, but the most important is that
the Chuck Muncie Memorial will be Saturday the 24th at the Stadium
at 12 noon.After a tour and watching
practice we will repair to Pappy’s (the old Rathskeller) for a sauce or two and
Don Miller (as he always does) will be providing the Evergood dogs--thoug it looks like he may not be providing them at the Stadium, after 30 years.Maybe there will be at least one funny story.

On the positive side, Cal
moved up to third place overall behind Harvard and Stanford in the 2013
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) global rankings of
universities. This represents an improvement over last year’s
fourth-place ranking, now held by MIT.

(On the negative side, if you get an
e-mail from me tomorrow you will be madder than hell.That being said, the contemplated insanity is
not a done deal.But if it gets done I
will let you know as soon as I get the phone call).

Cal is ranked third in the world
using the Shanghai Jiao Tong University methodology, which focuses on quality
of faculty and research. Berkeley is again the top-ranked public university,
followed by UCLA (12th), UCSD (14th) and UCSF (18th).

Top
10 universities in 2013

1 – Harvard, 100

2 – Stanford, 72.6

3 – Berkeley, 71.3

4 – MIT, 71.1

5 – Cambridge, 69.6

6 – Cal Tech, 62.9

7 – Princeton, 61.9

8 – Columbia, 59.8

9 – Chicago, 57.1

10 – Oxford, 55.9

The Rugby
Dinner is at the Columbo Club on September 13th honoring Dave
Stenger’s 40 years of service.Free Cocktails
start at 6:30.$40 per head.

Lastly, coach Wild Bill Dutton has e-mailed me (along with
Igor) looking for Ray Willsey’s contact information.If you have it, or a hint of where to look
(he’s been spotted in Colorado and there was a Willsey spotting in the L.A.
area recently), please e-mail it back to me so I can get it to him.

Go Bears (and pray you don’t get an e-mail from me tomorrow--we'll talk about it Saturday).

About Me

I write a Weekly Column for the St. Helena Star and have a Weekly Radio Show on KVON 1440am (KVON.com) on Wednesday's at 5pm. My Columns are about daily small town life in rural St. Helena. I'm old school and often write about the "old Days." I'm a Capitalist an believe in individual liberty and the rugged individualist. I also do a weekly blog on my trips to the Cal Bears Football games--but you gotta luv the Bears to like it. Having no marketable skills I sell dirt (vineyards wineries, ranches and estates), having formerly been a Creative Director and Copy Writer in New York and S.F.